"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." - Dame Anita Roddick
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - George Bernard Shaw
"Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz
"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." - Andy Rooney
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - Leo Tolstoy
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning." - John Ruskin
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James
"If 'A' is a success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x; y is play, and z is keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that." - Bill Shankly, 1913-81, Scottish manager of Liverpool Football Club, on the importance of passion in your chosen field
"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." - Richard Buckminster
Eclipse
3 weeks ago
